New to the forum here so I thought I'd introduce myself and my budget WW (to me at least) project I've been working on slowly for the past year.

This is my first proper road bike and I was on a tight budget at the start. It began with me finding an great deal on a donor bike with nice, new Ultegra 6700 components but with a cracked cheap Carbon frame. So I bought the bike and swapped in the broken carbon frame for this Nashbar Carbon/AL frame that at the time you could get from Nashbar for $150.... I saw good reviews on the site and figured it'd be a good temporary solution to use until I found a better frame. I even sold the cracked Carbon frame on ebay for about $80 so it brought down the cost of the initial build even more.

The initial bike built up with the donor parts ended up around 18.5lb... which is super heavy for this website's standards and I quickly caught the Weight Weenie bug and started upgrading.

I always intended to replace the frame with something nicer but so far it's been holding up very well over the past year. I think I'll probably get something new for next spring but the Nashbar frame should be fine through the winter.

I know it's not super lightweight compared to most of the builds on this site, but it's my first go and I was on a budget. I figure that if I were to upgrade to a 1,000g (or less) carbon frame in the future, it'll immediately drop the total weight into the low 14s which will be nice.

Huge fan of this build! This is what this site is about......making a bike as light as possible with the funds/materials you have available. Welcome.....this would be a great winter bike if you could save and spring for a complete, new bike as well. Looks very sharp as is.....the only thing I would do (and is purely aesthetic) is spring for a straight blade fork.

Sure, the rear rim on my Farsports wheels had a small defect in the rim edge. I posted about it here on WW:viewtopic.php?f=3&t=107985

But as you'll read, FS has been absolutely fantastic with taking care of me and they have already sent me a replacement rim, as well as reimbursed me for the cost of rebuilding the wheel here in the States.

I never weighed the frame when I got it because at the time I had no scale. According to others, though, the Nashbar frame in size 48cm was just over 1,400g. So I'm guessing my size is slightly heavier than that.

Beatiful Bike, because of this built i decide to buy the same frame from Amazon, i matched up with mavic cosmic carbone sl wheels (no a real wheight weenie) but now i have a mayor problem i am from Paraguay south America and i here i cant find the right headset for this frame so i hope you can help me and tell with is the especific headset i have to buy from Amazon Great Bike and pelase help me

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